Else Wildhagen Explained

Else Wildhagen (pronounced as /de/; née Friedrich-Friedrich,^[1] 10 January 1863, Leipzig – 9 August 1944, Leipzig) was a German writer. She was the daughter of the author of Der Trotzkopf, Emmy von Rhoden, and the writer Hermann Friedrich Friedrich. She was married to the German jurist, Georg Wildhagen, since 1885.^[2]

Works

As a writer, she was the author of the three sequels of her mother's masterpiece, Der Trotzkopf.^[3]

• Trotzkopfs Brautzeit
• Aus Trotzkopfs Ehe
• Trotzkopfs Nachkommen

Her mother's main work as well as the further stories that she published influenced children's literature in the Netherlands as well.^[4]

External links

• Else Wildhagen at German National Library

Notes and References

1. Book: Pataky, Sophie . Sophie Pataky . 1898 . Lexikon deutscher Frauen der Feder: Eine Zusammenstellung der seit dem Jahre 1840 erschienenen Werke weiblicher Autoren, nebst Biographieen der lebenden und einem Verzeichnis der Pseudonyme . Berlin . Carl Pataky . Lexikoneintrag „Wildhagen, Frau Else“.
2. Book: https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Friedrich,_Friedrich . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie, Bd. 49 . Friedrich, Friedrich . Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie . 1904 . 139 . Duncker & Humblot .
3. Book: O'Sullivan, Emer . 2010-11-22 . Historical Dictionary of Children's Literature . . Scarecrow Press . 213 . 9780810874961.
4. Feldmann . Theresia . The Untameable Trotzkopf: Commerce and Canonicity in the Curious Circulation of a Classic of German Children's Literature in the Low Countries and Germany . Dutch Crossing . 2020 . 44 . 2 . 236–253 . 10.1080/03096564.2020.1747013 . 0309-6564 . free.